Ben-Ner, Avner; List, John A.; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2015
of social preferences by providing mechanisms through which parents transmit preferences for generosity to their children …. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child … and parent generosity is correlated, (2) whether children are influenced by their parents when making sharing decisions …